Can trade mitigate climate change impacts?

If you find this question interesting you might take a look at my research. It focusses on international and environmental economics.

Research

My research focusses on international and environmental economics. I am using quantitative trade models based on the so-called gravity equation in order to derive numbers from theory. Therefore I link my educational background as an agricultural economist with my current work at the Trade Policy Task Force of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. For example, I use global gridded crop models to asses the impact of climate change on agricultural productivities and combine this with a gravity model in order to asses how different trade regimes can compensate negative welfare effects. Furthermore I am interested in econometrics of high-resolution and high-frequency data, e.g. remote sensing and spatial data.

Working Paper

The Carbon Footprint of Global Trade Imbalances (with Joschka Wanner), in progress.
Cutting through the Value Chain: The Long-Run Effects of Decoupling the East from the West (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Alexander Sandkamp).

Work In Progress

How Trade Can Mitigate Climate Change Impacts, in progress.
The Costs of War by Other Means (with Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Katrin Kamin and Anna Jacobs), in progress.

Advisory Work

With the knowledge gained through research, I do advisory work for policy makers and institutions. Dialogue with leading figures at the international, national, and regional level is aimed at incorporating socially relevant issues into my work and providing these actors with a sound informational basis for economic decision-making.

EU Climate Policy, Climate Clubs and Carbon Border Adjustment (with Joschka Wanner, Gabriel Felbermayr and Sonja Peterson), Bertelsmann Foundation.
Corona Pandemic: Global Data Monitor (with Katrin Kamin, Julian Hinz, Vincent Stamer and Jakob Kutsch), Federal Foreign Office.
Supply Chains in the Post-Corona Era (with Alexander Sandkamp and Gabriel Felbermayr), Impuls Foundation, Mechanical Engineering Industry Association.
Germany's Economy in Times of the Corona Lockdown (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Julian Hinz), Kiel Policy Brief, Spezial Corona-Update.

Vita

I am a research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. I hold a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Contact

Mail: hendrik.mahlkow@ifw-kiel.de
Twitter: @HMahlkow
GitHub: @hendrikmahlkow

Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Kiellinie 66
24105 Kiel, Germany

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